2015 Dannemora prison break comes to the small screen

I was recently tasked with one of the most difficult duties I’ve ever endured throughout all my years in journalism.

Review a Lifetime movie.

It’s New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell, a true crime dramatization of the 2015 prison break at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and the three-week manhunt upstate for the two escaped fugitives/convicted murderers. Mitchell was the prison seamstress the two men conned, cajoled, flattered and had sexual relations with in order to gain her trust, and eventually her help in escaping.

You might remember a certain, shall we say, DELUGE of news coverage as it was happening, regionally, nationally and internationally, as well as in our own very pages and online.